More than half of Texans had been infected by COVID-19 as of late January, according to a...
Registered nurse Marcie Weissman administers the COVID-19 vaccine on May 13, 2021, in Houston, Texas.conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC has been regularly gathering the data since August 2020 to track the percentage of people with resolving or past infections, and how that varies across geographic areas and age groups. The estimate underscores new CDC guidance that no longer recommends mask-wearing indoors for most of the country, including Harris County, except during times of high transmission. Addressing the rationale for the change, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky said that with “widespread population immunity, the overall risk of severe disease is now generally lower.”
“What we don’t know for sure with COVID is how long that natural immunity lasts,” said Dr. Catherine Troisi, epidemiologist with UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston. “And there is the added question of how protective are the antibodies that you’ve made against the you’ve been infected with.”
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